India's only DIY folk-tale
animation studio
in a box.
Stop-motion kits, courses, and creator tools — made by one Mumbai animator who believes Indian kids deserve to learn creativity from Chanakya, not Mickey Mouse.
Folk tales raised generations of Indian children. Then television raised one. Then YouTube raised the next. Somewhere in there, we stopped making things with our hands.
Folkwithfolks is the studio I wished existed when I was ten — a place where you don't just watch a story, you build the puppet, light the set, and bring Chanakya, Birbal, Tenali Rama, and the Panchatantra to life yourself.
One animator. One mission. Indian folk culture, alive again.
Three ways
to make folk with us.
Every product is built or recorded by Vyom in his Mumbai studio. Nothing dropshipped. Nothing white-labelled.
Build the puppet.
Build the story.
Physical kits with everything you need: clay, armature wire, foil, fabric, tools, an illustrated manual, and a folk character to bring alive.
Browse kits →For makers who already
know what they're doing.
Storyboard templates, LUTs, sound libraries, brush packs, motion graphics — everything I use in my own films, packaged for yours.
Browse tools →Learn it from a working
animator, not an algorithm.
Stop-motion 101. Smartphone stop-motion. Lighting tiny worlds. Lip sync. Made by someone who actually ships work.
Browse courses →Inside the studio,
every week.
One new template, one new sound effect, one new folk tale — every single month. Plus behind-the-scenes process films, members-only Discord, and 25% off everything in the shop.
Free folk tales.
Every week. Forever.
I publish a new stop-motion folk tale on YouTube every week. No paywall. Subscribe for the films, or grab the free storyboard pack and start making your own.
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Hi, I'm Vyom.
Master of Design in Animation, MIT Pune. Stop-motion animator, filmmaker, and obsessive folk-culture nerd based in Mumbai.
Folkwithfolks is everything I make — the films, the kits, the tools, the tales. Every order ships from my studio. Every email reply is mine. Every kit is built because I'd want my own kid to use it.
If you ever want to ask me anything, I answer my own DMs.
@katha.by.vyom